COMMON CAUSE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 5

COMMON CAUSE.

LABOUR AND CAPITAL

STRIKE AGAINST PENSION LAW

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT BUENOS AYRES, May 5. With both capital and labour on strike demanding a postponement, of the application of the pension law, President Alveyar to-day announced that he was sending a message to Congress, indicating that lie intends to enforce compliance with the law, but proposing amendments designed to meet the objections to it. The chief complaint is that the law postpones for two years the establishment of a scheme of benefits, meanwhile requiring "employers and employees to contribute to the fund, not -knowing when or in what proportion the employer will get the money back. 4.x. xive-? a£ assurance by the President that the Government would go to the utmost to rectify the situation in respect to the pension law, the committees representing the employees and the employers recommended their constituents to cease their protest movements.

The employers have agreed to . reopen their places of business" on Tuesday, ihe workmen are to-night debating the question.